The Necklace of the Pleiades : 24 Essays on Persian Literature, Culture and Religion.

Intro -- The Necklace of the Pleiades -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF HESHMAT MOAYYAD -- I. Alexander Romance -- On Some Sources of Nizm%'s Iskandarn ma -- Sources and Art of Amir Khosrou's"The Alexandrine Mirror" -- II. The Epic Cycle -- Rostam and Zoroastrianism -- Reflections on Re-reading the Iliad and the Shahnameh -- Shirin and Other Female Archetypes in Firdausi's Shahnamah -- Editing the Shahnama:The Interface between Literary and Textual Criticism -- III. Religious Texts and Contexts -- The Creative Compiler:The Art of Rewriting in 'Attar's Takirat al-awlya' -- Shahriyar b. al-Hasan:A Persian Isma'ili da i' of the Fatimid age -- "In Praise of One of the Deeply Learned 'Ulama": A Mysterious Poem byQajar Court Poet Mirza Habib Allah Shirazi "Qa'ani" -- IV. The Poetic Text and Central Motifs -- A Life in Poetry: Hafiz's First Ghazal -- My Heart is the Ball, Your Lock the Polo-Stick: The Development of Polo Metaphors in Classical Persian Poetry1 -- V. Center and Periphery -- Sincerely Flattering Panegyrics: The Shrinking Ghaznavid Qasida -- Novelty, Tradition and Mughal Politics inNau'i's Suz u Gudaz -- Situating the Khorasani Dialects within the Persian-Dari-Tajiki Linguistic Continuum -- IV. The Modern Period -- The Political Realm's Literary Convention:The Examples of 'Ishqi and Iqbal -- Re-membering Amrads and Amradnumas: Re-inventing the (Sedgwickian) Wheel -- The Title of Hedayat's Buf-e Kur [(The) Blind Owl)] -- Sâdeq Hedâyat, a Writer ahead of Time -- A Fenceless Garden -- Refuting Rushdie in Persian -- From Dawn's Art -- Backlist Iranian Studies Series:.

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